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Regular riot Alice

Hi it's me again,
Six men are trying to stop smoking. They have to put money in a can each time they smoke a cigarette. In the morning, T. run into L. who is smoking a cigar. Later on, they meet again at their job, with the other guys who are trying to stop smoking. In the following dialog, I don't understand the expression "regular riot Alice".
T : Get your money in the can, Fidel Castro ?
L : You're a regular riot Alice.
F : T. bagged L. crossing the street with a big old heater going.

Re: Regular riot Alice

Originally Posted by polaris

Hi it's me again,
Six men are trying to stop smoking. They have to put money in a can each time they smoke a cigarette. In the morning, T. run into L. who is smoking a cigar. Later on, they meet again at their job, with the other guys who are trying to stop smoking. In the following dialog, I don't understand the expression "regular riot Alice".
T : Get your money in the can, Fidel Castro ?
L : You're a regular riot Alice.
F : T. bagged L. crossing the street with a big old heater going.
Is that mean "you're a stool pigeon" ?
Sorry for the slang

"Get your money in the can?"
Did you pay the fine for smoking? 'The can' is a general purpose slang expression with several connotations - most of these are related to the fact that 'the can' is a euphemism for 'the toilet'. This is often applied to prison. Here it just means the money would 'go down the can' - in other words, be wasted.

"You're a regular riot"
This is a common English slang expression, and is short for "You're a regular laugh riot" - it's sarcastic, and is used to respond to someone who has made a joke at your expense. You are suggesting their joke was so funny that it caused a riot of laughing among everyone who heard it - i.e. obviously it didn't, because the joke is not very funny at all.

"Alice"
He's calling the accuser 'Alice in Wonderland' - shorthand slang for someone who makes up an extraordinary fantasy, from the Lewis Carroll novel.

"T. bagged L."
'bagged' is slang for 'caught' - by reference to poachers who would put their illicit kills into a bag ('bag' them).

"a big old heater" - a large smoke, because a large smoking object is producing heat - it is a 'heater'. It may be worth noting that American slang refers to a gun as 'a heater' - it tends to create attention from the legal authorities, making criminals uneasy (or 'hot' for them). This is not the meaning implied here.

Re: Regular riot Alice

I agree with Mr. P that L was quoting Ralph Kramden from the old TV show The Honeymooners. Whenever Alice (his wife) would, for example, make a joke at his expense, he'd say to her (in a very sarcastic voice), "Oh, you're a riot, Alice, a regular riot!" (Basically meaning that even though everyone else thought her comment was funny, Ralph did not.) He often followed this comment with, "Bang, Zoom!" accompanied by a punching gesture, the implication being that he was going to hit her hard enough to send her to the moon. (Very unacceptable today to make jokes about hitting a woman, but this show was from the early 1950s.)

Example: Ralph, who is very overweight, was complaining about winning only a very small amount of money. He said that tiny amount was nothing but "peanuts."
Ralph: "Peanuts! Peanuts! What am I supposed to do with peanuts?"
Alice: "Eat them, like any other elephant!"
Ralph: (angrily) "Oh, you're a regular riot, Alice...!"

In the sample dialog you posted, it appears that T caught L walking across the street, smoking a cigar ("a big ol' heater"). T called L out on it, jokingly referring to him as "Fidel Castro," as the Cuban dictator is known for his stogies. L is unhappy not only at being caught smoking, but also for the wisecrack T made, so he grudgingly puts his money in the penalty can, while muttering, "You're a riot, Alice" to T.

Re: Regular riot Alice

Originally Posted by Coffa

[...]

"You're a regular riot"
This is a common English slang expression, and is short for "You're a regular laugh riot" - it's sarcastic, and is used to respond to someone who has made a joke at your expense. You are suggesting their joke was so funny that it caused a riot of laughing among everyone who heard it - i.e. obviously it didn't, because the joke is not very funny at all.

[...]

I have heard the expression "Everybody is a comedian".
Is it also said sarcastically, and could it mean that someone
made a joke at your expense, and/or that you didn't find it funny?